Journey to the Land of the Long White Cloud (and other antipodean adventures)
About this blog
In the words of Roger Hargreaves...
"On the other side of the world, where the sun shines hotter than here, and where the trees are a hundred feet tall, there is a country called Happyland."
Copyright © 2003 - 2006 Jawad Mughal ( All Rights Reserved )
Trip Start
May 18, 2003
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1
Farewell BBQ -
2
Only a couple of days to go... -
3
Leaving on a jet plane -
4
First stop - KL! -
5
Shopping (or lack of) at the night market -
6
Money and Red Bean Buns -
7
Walking around KL's shopping malls -
8
Menara Kuala Lumpur -
9
Independence -
10
KL Masjids -
11
CitraWarna Malaysia - Colours of Malaysia -
12
Time for Tea -
13
Babel fish on tour -
14
It's a small world -
15
Mango Lassi -
16
Cameron Highlands Tour -
17
Terror Treking -
18
Penang - my first Malaysian island -
19
Backpacking with a flowery suitcase -
20
Temples and Funiculars -
21
Borneo bound! -
22
Ferringhi Beach -
23
Cat city -
24
Cat statues -
25
Wild orang-utans -
26
"Meow" Museum -
27
Bako trails and beaches -
28
Merry Miri -
29
Proboscis monkeys -
30
Arrived on Sabah shores -
31
Climbing Mount Kinabalu - Day 1 -
32
Climbing Mount Kinabalu - Day 3 -
33
Climbing Mount Kinabalu - Day 4 -
34
Leaving Borneo -
35
Back on the road -
36
Just in Jerteh -
37
Football's coming home... -
38
Chaos in KL -
39
F.A. Premier League Asia Cup -
40
Raining in Tanah Rata -
41
Treking again -
42
Back in KL -
43
Train to Thailand -
44
Arrived in Thailand -
45
Funky moped -
46
Waxing Gibbous (not quite Full Moon) Party Beach -
47
Diving again -
48
One night in Bangkok -
49
Tuk-tuks in the rain -
50
Heading North -
51
Too good to be true, but it was! -
52
City of Wats -
53
Bamboo Saxophones -
54
Learning to cook Thai cuisine -
55
Pai in the sky -
56
Back in Bangkok -
57
Last stop in South East Asia -
58
The Land of the Long White Cloud -
59
Traffic lights and postcodes -
60
Road trip to Northland -
61
Driving again -
62
Life on the farm -
63
Stuck in the mud -
64
Tim Tam Explosions -
65
Walks in the woods -
66
Kauri Museum -
67
Lord of the Rings -
68
Back to the Northern Hemisphere -
69
Letter from America -
70
Home of the Blues Brothers -
71
Timbits in Canada -
72
French Canadians -
73
City of Comedy -
74
Planes, trains and automobiles -
75
Coast to coast walkway -
76
Winged Migration -
77
Walking through the Waitakere Ranges -
78
Tall ships -
79
Groove in the park -
80
Lantern Festival -
81
As You Like It -
82
Starlight Symphony -
83
Settlers of Mission Bay - the Expansion! -
84
East Cape Tour -
85
Fred the friendly Possum -
86
As far East as it gets -
87
Surfing on the Pacific Ocean -
88
First stop on the lake -
89
Long walk around the lake -
90
Last stop on the lake -
91
Leaving Lake Waikaremoana -
92
Jumping out of a plane -
93
NZ Idol -
94
Musical weekend -
95
The following takes place between 8pm and 9pm -
96
Pre-contest concert -
97
Tim Tam Hall of Fame -
98
Flying into Sydney -
99
2004 NSW State Concert Band Championships -
100
Mountain biking in the Blue Mountains -
101
Canyoning in the Blue Mountains -
102
Sydney's northern beaches -
103
Up in the mountains again -
104
Election 2004 -
105
Blackheath v Katoomba -
106
Babel fish touring New South Wales -
107
City architecture -
108
Latino Festival -
109
Australia Day -
110
On the road again... -
111
Capital city -
112
Museum Mania -
113
Sunny Melbourne -
114
Back to the Northern Hemisphere -
115
Settlers of Boston Uni -
116
Back to school -
117
An audience with Gene Wilder -
118
Pai 5 reunion -
119
Detroit Institute of Art -
120
City of Angels -
121
Back in the Southern Hemisphere -
122
Melbourne International Comedy Festival -
123
The Comedy Channel 2005 Short Film Festival -
124
Great Ocean Road trip...YEAH! -
125
Apollo Bay Music Festival -
126
Loch Ard Gorge and The Sow and Pigletts -
127
Queens Day in Melbourne -
128
Hitchhiker's Guide to Victorian brass bands -
129
Leaving the mainland -
130
Arrival in Van Diemen's Land -
131
Leisurely Lonni -
132
Circuit around the Great Lake -
133
Bay of Fires -
134
That's pronounced Fray-jer-nay -
135
Oaklands Lodge mini reunion -
136
Climb every mountain -
137
Twenty four months - 104 weeks - 731 days -
138
Walking by the lake -
139
Western wilderness -
140
The Nut -
141
F.A. Cup Final -
142
Back to the mainland -
143
Back in Melbourne -
144
Surprise visit! -
145
Go West! -
146
On the (great ocean) road again... -
147
Whale nursery at Logans Beach -
148
Not so Blue Lake -
149
Rego at Murray Bridge -
150
It's official - Winter is here! -
151
Museums and art galore! -
152
Out on the range -
153
Supply stop for the journey ahead -
154
Last stop for water -
155
In the middle of nowhere! -
156
Fuel prices across the Nullarbor Plain -
157
"Hope" town -
158
Western Australia's surprisingly green pastures -
159
Back to civilisation -
160
Almost to the Indian Ocean... -
161
Coldest day in four decades -
162
We've arrived! -
163
Familiar faces from far away places -
164
World Refugee Day -
165
Perth City Walks -
166
Wave Rock, Hippos Yawn and the Dog Cemetary -
167
West Coast Road Trip -
168
The day Sheila died -
169
Like a Phoenix from the ashes -
170
A station with a difference -
171
Destination Darwin -
172
Life in the Top End -
173
Touchdown in Queensland -
174
Sailing the Whitsundays -
175
Last night in Brisbane -
176
Back to the Land of the Long White Cloud -
177
Auckland Band Association Contest -
178
The worst plane journey ever -
179
Buying a car in New Zealand -
180
TROGDOR is unleashed! -
181
James Morrison in concert -
182
Driving south -
183
TROGDOR and Jawad hit the road -
184
Tongariro Crossing -
185
Farming in New Zealand -
186
Rural New Zealand -
187
Capital Birthday -
188
Museum days -
189
The week that Wellington was closed -
190
Ferry to the South Island -
191
Crossing the Cook Strait -
192
TROGDOR has left the Island -
193
Country market to folk trio -
194
Life on magic mountain -
195
WWOOFing in Golden Bay -
196
A week of living sustainably -
197
Takaka Citizens Band -
198
Motueka Municipal Band -
199
Abel Tasman coastal walk -
200
Nelson Lakes and Pancake Rocks -
201
Pounamu land -
202
Glacier country -
203
Fox Glacier hike -
204
What to do in Wanaka -
205
Sofa cinema -
206
The joys of illegal camping -
207
Kepler Track -
208
NZ's most scenic highway -
209
Back to Queenstown -
210
Quality Queenstown -
211
Southern City -
212
Even further south to Stewart Island -
213
3 Day Rakiura Track -
214
From the bottom of the world -
215
Xmas in Alex -
216
Settlers of the New Year! -
217
TROGDOR takes a dive -
218
Back on the North Island -
219
Meeting up on the opposite side of the world -
220
New Zealand premier of No 2 -
221
Back in the northern hemisphere! -
222
Malaysian F1 Grand Prix -
223
Across the border -
224
First west coast island -
225
Back on the mainland -
226
Crappy Krabi -
227
One night in Bangkok... -
228
Back in Pai -
229
Election day -
230
Poy sanglong festival -
231
From Long Neck villages to the Burmese border -
232
Meditation in the mountains -
233
Songkran New Year Festival -
234
Leaving for Laos -
235
Border town boredom -
236
Illegally crossing international borders -
237
The most eventful bus journey I've ever taken -
238
As close to China as I'll get -
239
Baguettes pushers at the bus station -
240
South east asia's best preserved city -
241
Lost in Laos -
242
A break from the city -
243
Tiger Temple -
244
Sightseeing in Bangkok -
245
Welcome to Scambodia -
246
Fantastic Four hit the capital -
247
And then it poured... -
248
Tour of duty -
249
Overland to Vietnam -
250
Gooood Morning Vietnam! -
251
City of eternal spring -
252
Surviving Vietnamese traffic -
253
Tourist boat tour -
254
Diving in Nha Trang -
255
My Son -
256
Suits you sir! -
257
Festival Hue -
258
DMZ tour -
259
Overnight bus heading to Hanoi -
260
Hanging out in Hanoi -
261
Sa Pa -
262
Tour of duty complete -
263
Back in Bangkok -
264
Overnight train to Butterworth -
265
Heading for the hills -
266
Uncle Jawad -
267
Brighton bound -
268
Adventures in Europe -
269
Live from Amsterdam -
270
Life in the fast lane -
271
Train to Paris -
272
Berlin bound
